VintageInside in the dark back room Meredith Bergman read beautifullySee previous post Part twoJoshua Mehigan was utterly mesmerizing One of the poems he read was 'Smokestack'and below he also reads 'Rabbit Foot' WATCHhttp://vimeo.com/41056170Many others read, but I didn't write all the names so won't put any names I know for fear of favoring. All were fine and the very full house enthusiastic. *Exit AllOur fortunes were available two doors away

I
was rudely awakened from a troubling dream by a furry feeling at my
neck at 3AM--spent an hour stripping the bed and looking for
openings (of which there are many)...((((sigh)))) 'Tis the season for
this and now I must DO something about it.The day dissolved into emails, face book, research and reading.* Evening I watched this documentary

"Thinkers in ancient India understood the source and direction of the creative impulse as accessible deep within their being in moments of intuitive insight. Various verses in the Rgveda reflect the idea that certain people possess within a transformative genius or dhi"* -from The Artist as Yogi-The Yogi as Artist by William K. MahonyParabola-Volume xiii-Number 1-1988-The Creative Impulse-~*~

I am entertaining the notion that Wednesdays mouse was just a vivid part of the dream since there has been no sign of it since. It does happen that if a dream element wakes one violently the portal remains open and the vision seems real. This is usually an important dream, and mine was that.~*~

Took me a minute but I finally realized what that the tin 'cat' baited with peanut butter is a mouse catcher...is it a killer? I mean how does it work?

In any case, It's been many days since the 'mouse' waking and I'm really-really thinking the furry thing was in my dream--that I just woke too fast to realize that, and thought it was real. I have had visceral dreams that felt real and remembered them with all their somatic sensations. The point of the dream was the last image (which was quite benign but was an answer to the disturbance the dream was struggling with)...I think the dream 'mouse' woke me so I could know that answer. Do YOU know what I mean?

it's a tin box, flat, with two entryways...either end that can be enteredbut do not allow xit. a little blobof peanut butter is irresistable.It opens like a cigar box. so youjust carry it far enough away thatyou think the mouse cannot find it'sway back and open the top an BING!mouse jumps out and runs off. I takethese usually up the road a ways. Dear Tazmeena used to do constantmouse patrol and was 100000% effectivebut no more. and living amidst fieldsAND having that big shed out there with so much animal feed in it...it's becomelike a Theme Park here for the mice.

And yes...i know exactly about the dreaming...Exactly. I have this too and am grateful for it.

BOB and SOPHIE

WILF RIP

JUDE's MAGIC FEATHER PROJECT

(click on box to go to site)

JUDE's FLICKER

MAGIC FEATHER (click on picture to view slide show)

JUDE's STONES

Jude's Gathering STONES

ZEN HABITS

(click on picture)

You are always nearer to the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive.The great opportunity is where you are. Every place is the center of the world." -John Burroughs-

PLANT GROWTH

click on Photo for a short video

WHAT IF

What if every little thing you do subtly alters the course of world history? What if your day-to-day decisions will actually help determine how the human species navigates its way through the epic turning point we're living through?-Rob.Bresney-

COMPASSION HEALS

By three methods we may learn Wisdom: First by reflection, which is noblest- Second by imitation, which is the easiest- Third by experience, which is the bitterest Confucius

WITNESSS

MIRROR

WORSHIP

David Foster Wallace said

The realization that you have something of value to contribute to the greater world necessarily involves prying your mind off yourself for a minute.